Determination of Participation Status of University Students into Leisure Time Activities and Subjective Vitality and Basic Psychological Needs

Totally 217 ( :20.84±1.92) students studying at Agri Ibrahim Cecen University Faculty of Education, 125 (57.6%) of whom were females and 92 (42.4%) were males, participated into the study conducted for the purpose of investigating the differences between participation into leisure time activities and subjective vitality and basic psychological needs. Personal information form prepared by the researcher in compliance with the aim of the study and “Basic Psychological Needs Scale” (Kesici, Ure, Bozgeyikli and Sunbul, 2003) and “Subjective Vitality Scale” (Uysal, Saricam and Akin, 2014) were applied on students. In the analysis of data, frequency and percentage processes, independent samples t-test, one-way ANOVA and Pearson correlation tests were performed and the significance level was taken as 0.05 in all tests. No difference was found in regard to the scales in the gender variable in analyses performed. Although any difference was not found in terms of interdepartmental subjective vitality, it was found out that psychological need differed. It was seen that those who do regular activity have the subjective vitality, those who engage in various activities in their leisure times are satisfied in the competency sub-dimension of the psychological need. It was concluded that as the age increases, autonomy need decreases, thus, satisfaction is achieved and once the general psychological satisfaction is achieved, the subjective vitality increases.